New standard contracts for NHS mental health, community and ambulance services (29th May 2008)
Monthly bulletins on the development of new standard contracts for NHS mental health, community, and ambulance services, to be introduced from April 2009. The new contracts will be based upon many of the same principles and requirements of the standard acute contract (introduced through the Operating Framework in December 2007 for agreements between PCTs, as commissioners, and NHS trusts and NHS foundation trusts as providers), amended as necessary to take account of the different service and organisational contexts.
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Implementing the White Paper Trust, Assurance and Safety: enhancing confidence in healthcare professional regulators - final report and DH response to recommendation (2nd June 2008)
In May 2007, Lord Hunt asked Niall Dickson, Chief Executive of the Kings Fund, to chair one of the seven working groups to take forward key recommendations in the White Paper Trust, Assurance and Safety. This group was asked to examine those aspects of the White Paper concerned with enhancing public confidence in the regulators of healthcare professionals. This document contains the working group's report and the Department's response to its recommendations.
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NHS Carbon Emissions Modelling (29th May 2008)
The NHS has produced an NHS England Carbon Reduction Strategy, as part of a broader sustainable development agenda. To support this process, the Sustainable Development Commission (SDC) has completed a carbon footprinting study - covering all NHS England Estates and activities - in conjunction with the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI).
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Background to the Next Stage Review (30th May 2008)
In July 2007 Professor Lord Ara Darzi, a surgeon and health minister, started a wide-ranging review of the NHS in England and the final report is due to be published before the 60th anniversary of the NHS on 5 July 2008. This briefing, from the Kings Fund, provides the background of the review and previews the recommendations the report will make.
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The Quest for Quality: Refining the NHS Reforms. A Policy Analysis and Chartbook (20th May 2008)
Quest for Quality: Refining the NHS reforms is a detailed and authoritative study of healthcare in the UK by internationally acclaimed academics Professor Sheila Leatherman and Dr Kim Sutherland. It is the last of a series commissioned to examine in depth the progress of and quality of care in the NHS over a 10-year period which began in 1997. This latest document reports on how and where quality has improved in response to major investment since the Labour Government was elected and follows an interim report published in 2005. It has two complementary sections – a policy analysis and a data chartbook - and also contains recommendations for the Department of Health on how the quality agenda may be more effectively progressed in future.
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Monthly bulletins on the development of new standard contracts for NHS mental health, community, and ambulance services, to be introduced from April 2009. The new contracts will be based upon many of the same principles and requirements of the standard acute contract (introduced through the Operating Framework in December 2007 for agreements between PCTs, as commissioners, and NHS trusts and NHS foundation trusts as providers), amended as necessary to take account of the different service and organisational contexts.
Click here for Information
Implementing the White Paper Trust, Assurance and Safety: enhancing confidence in healthcare professional regulators - final report and DH response to recommendation (2nd June 2008)
In May 2007, Lord Hunt asked Niall Dickson, Chief Executive of the Kings Fund, to chair one of the seven working groups to take forward key recommendations in the White Paper Trust, Assurance and Safety. This group was asked to examine those aspects of the White Paper concerned with enhancing public confidence in the regulators of healthcare professionals. This document contains the working group's report and the Department's response to its recommendations.
Click here for the Document
NHS Carbon Emissions Modelling (29th May 2008)
The NHS has produced an NHS England Carbon Reduction Strategy, as part of a broader sustainable development agenda. To support this process, the Sustainable Development Commission (SDC) has completed a carbon footprinting study - covering all NHS England Estates and activities - in conjunction with the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI).
Click here for the Document
Background to the Next Stage Review (30th May 2008)
In July 2007 Professor Lord Ara Darzi, a surgeon and health minister, started a wide-ranging review of the NHS in England and the final report is due to be published before the 60th anniversary of the NHS on 5 July 2008. This briefing, from the Kings Fund, provides the background of the review and previews the recommendations the report will make.
Click here for the Briefing
The Quest for Quality: Refining the NHS Reforms. A Policy Analysis and Chartbook (20th May 2008)
Quest for Quality: Refining the NHS reforms is a detailed and authoritative study of healthcare in the UK by internationally acclaimed academics Professor Sheila Leatherman and Dr Kim Sutherland. It is the last of a series commissioned to examine in depth the progress of and quality of care in the NHS over a 10-year period which began in 1997. This latest document reports on how and where quality has improved in response to major investment since the Labour Government was elected and follows an interim report published in 2005. It has two complementary sections – a policy analysis and a data chartbook - and also contains recommendations for the Department of Health on how the quality agenda may be more effectively progressed in future.
Click here for the Document
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